Method of making shear plates for electric shavers



2,423,177 ERS July 1., 1947. w. CUNLIFFE METHOD OF MAKING SHEAR PLATES FOR ELECTRIC SHAV Filed Jan. 20, 1944 Patented July 1, 1947 I 1 UNITED STATESPATE'NT OFFICE METHOD OF MAKING SHEAR PLATES FOR ELECTRIC SHAVERS Wilfred Cunlitfe, Stamford, Conn, 'assignor, by

mesne assignments, to Schick Incorporated, a corporation of Delaware ApplicaticnJanuary 20, 1944, Serial No. 518,932 3 Claims. (Cl. 76-104) This invention relates to the manufacture of i receive any appropriately shaped and apertured shear plates for electric shavers and particularly or slotted inner cutter adapted to be reciprocated greater strength for the bars or metal portions 5 truding through slots 2.

intermediate the slots or other shear plate open- Before the outer cutter is completed'by the ings, that is, greater strength for any given insertion of base block 6 but preferably after thickness of stock. Another object of the inventhe shell has been formed as shown in Fig 2 the tion is to provide an improved method of formshear plate bars between the shear plate slots 2 ing the cutting edges of the shear plate bars. 10 are subjected to a further forming operation.

shear plate. ual bars of the shear plate are formed to arcuate These and other objects and advantages will section transversely of their length being curved be apparent from the followmg detailed descripoutwardly, that is to say, outwardly away from tion of a preferred form of the invention and the interior of the shell, or convex as viewed from the accompanying illustrative drawings, of from the outside of the shell. By this means con- Which Fig. 1 is a plan view of a pierced blank siderable strength or rigidity is imparted to the tive View of a shear plate shell formed from the strains to WhlCh they are subJected during the blank; and Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are very much enactual cutting of hair.

larged sectional views through the shear plate 5 The bars may be further treated in various view of a shear plate shell formed from such P o s 3 0f the ba s, as ShOWn in Fig. 4. Thereblank. after, the inner surface of the shear plate is having a substantially flat, rectanglar, skin-enof the bars I 0 of the inner cutter, indicated in dotted outline.

1y extending shearing bars separated or spaced In the result, highly effective cutting edges are by open-ended slots. The shear plate is formed produced along the edges of the shear plate bars from a blank I stamped out of sheet metal stock bordering the slots 2; and, also, the slot enand pierced With anumber of m; Parallel, Closely trances, being tapered, are effectively shaped to is formed to the inverted U or channel shape close to the shearing plane. Furthermore, since shown in Fig. 2 to provide the top or shear plate a the outer faces of the shear plate bars are curved proper, generally designated 3, having dependand lack the usual sharp outer corners, the skinthrough the combmg and down into the side So far as the inner or nether surface of the walls in the usual or any preferred manner. In shear plate is concerned, it will be apparent that dotted outline and marked 6 is shown a suitthe contact area, and hence the friction, between blank II is so pierced as to provide two rows of slots l2 spaced by a blank central strip l3; and, as shown in Fig. 7 (which is an end or edge view of the blank), this central strip 13 may be formed to provide an outwardly \curved rib which, when the blank .is rformed to its channel shape ,as shown in Fig. 8, extends longitudinally of the shear plate intermediate the two rows of slots l2. In all other respects the shear plate may .be formed and finished as above described. As will be understood, the bars are thus doubly reinforced and high rigidity imparted to the shear plate as a whole, with the other advantages already pointed out in connection with the first described form of the invention.

The principles of the invention as applicable to other forms of shear plates will be readily apparent and the following is claimed:

1,. The method of making shaver shear plates which comprises piercing a blank or thin sheet metal stock .to form a parallel, closely-spaced, alternate slots and bars therein, forming the blank into a shear plate \of channel shape having combing at ;its side edges, bowing the individual :bars to arcuate section transversely of their length to impart strength and rigidity thereto, ,swaging the bars .to'reduoe their edge thickness, and lapping the inner surfaces of said bars to produce a plurality of hat surfaces .on each ltxar.

.2. The method :of making shaver .shear plates which comprises piercing a blank of thin sheet metal stock to rcrma lurality of relatively long, parallel, closely-spaced, alternate :slots and bars therein, forming the blank into :a shear plate .of channel shape with the said slots and share ex tending transversely and substantially continuplurality of relatively long,

ously throughout the width of the skin-engaging portion of the shear plate, bowing the individual bars to arcuate section transversely of their length to impart strength and rigidity thereto, reducing the edge thickness of the bars, and flapping the inner a Times pf said bars to produce aplura'lity oi iflatsurfaces on each bar.

3. The method of making shaver shear plates which comprises piercing a blank of thin sheet metal stock to form a plurality of relatively long, parallel, .closely spaced, alternate slots and bars therein, forming the blank into a shear plate of channel shape with the said slots and bars extending transversely and substantially continuously throughout he width of the skin-engaging portion of the shear plate, bowing the individual 'bars to arcuate section transversely of their length to impart strength and rigidity thereto, reducing the edge thickness of the bars, and removing metal from the inner surfaces of said bars to produce :a plurality f 11 wrfi B on each bar.

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